A slightly off-topic post but my web analytics tool, Clicky tells me that a number of searches that end up on London Calling are actually people looking for information on how to call a London number from overseas. I always try and help out our audience, so listed below is a quick how-to. To call [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted November 28, 2010
in London Calling
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Tagged 00, 0011, 0044, 011, 44, 44 uk, caling london, call london, call uk, call uk mobile, calling a london number, calling london, calling london numbers, calling number, calling uk mobile, dialing london, how do I call london, how to contact people staying in london using their phone number, international london calling, london call me, london calling, london carea codes, london dialing codes, london dialling codes, london telephone, uk country code
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One of the limitations of twitter is that if you want to share a website link such as http://londoncalling.co/2010/10/using-your-own-branded-short-urls-on-twitter-part-1 then the link actually takes up a number of valuable characters (83 to be exact) – more than half of the 140 available in a single tweet. The answer of course is to use one of a [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 31, 2010
in social media, URL shorteners
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Tagged bbc, BBC short URL, bit.ly, bit.ly alternative, bit.ly short url, bitly, bitly alternative, bitly alternatives, bitly competitor, bitlypro, bity.pro, branded short URL, branded URL, coke, CokeURL, FT, geek chic, im, Independent, j.mp, lc.tl, london calling, Malcolm Coles, mcol.es, Ozh Richard, personal short URL, personal URL, Reuters, Robert Brook, short branded urls, short brander url, short links, short url, stephen waddington, The Independent, tim bradshaw, tim.lc, tinyurl, tr, tweetdeck, twitter links, url, url short, urls, wadds, wadds.co, wunderman, yourls, yourls.org
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This post follows on from part 1 where I introduced the concept of short URL services and how some companies and individuals have started to deploy customised URL shorteners. So now you’ve made the decision that you want your own short URL service (like the one I use, lc.tl) – what next? Well first of [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 31, 2010
in social media
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Tagged .cx, .tl, backtweets, bbc, BBC short URL, bit.ly, bitly, bitly.pro, bitlypro, bity.pro, branded short URL, branded URL, chromed bird, coke, CokeURL, domai.nr, eurodns, eurodns.com, FT, geek chic, ghandi.net, im, Independent, lc.tl, london calling, Ozh Richard, personal short URL, personal URL, Reuters, Robert Brook, short links, short url, stephen waddington, The Independent, tim bradshaw, tim.lc, tinyurl, tippex youtube, tr, tweetdec, tweetdeck, twitter links, two letter domains, url, urls, wadds, wadds.co, wunderman, yourls, yourls.org
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Brad Howarth, writing for B&T Magazine in Australia has published a “Top 50 Australian marketing blogs” list. Each year B&T look at the blogosphere in Australia and anoint their top 50. This is their definitive list for 2009 and comes from the work of Julian Cole at Adspace-pioneers.blogspot.com. Interesting that a mobile blog scrapes in at number [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted June 12, 2009
in blogs
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Tagged Acidlabs, Adspace pioneers, australia, australian mobile market, australoan market perspectives, Bannerblog, Brad Howarthm, bt, Imspiration Room Daily, Julian Cole, Laurel Papworth, london calling, Marketing Magazine, mobile advertising, mobile marketing, Mumbrella, Servant of Chaos, social media, top 50 blogs, top 50 marketing blogs, top mobile blog, Young PR
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This week sees London host two important events, one being the G20 meeting, the other is carnival of the mobilists, hosted right here in London at London Calling. For those of you who don’t know much about the carnival – have a look at www.mobili.st and to the one person this week who emailed me thinking [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 29, 2009
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Tagged 3g enabled, 7th mass media, Africa mobile costs, Ajit Jaokar, Amazon kindle, America, andrew grill, australia, Barack Obama, blogs, carnival, carnival 167, carnival of the mobilists, Chetan Sharma, china, clud services, cotm, Dennis Bournique, embedded clients, eu, european union, G-20, G20, G20 mobile summit, G20 summit, G20 summit special edition, geekcast.fm, Gordon Brown, india, iphone, iPhone myth buster, James Cooper, Kevin Rudd, london calling, Luxembourg, Martin Sauter, mjelly, mobile, mobile advertising evangelist, mobile blogger, mobile broadband, mobile markets, mobile opinion, mobile sensors, mobile social networking, mobile tribe, mobili.st, mobility, Per-Fredrik, sydney, Tomi Ahonen, twitter, United Kingdom, us iphone traffic, wap review, wireless moves
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Welcome to edition 146 of Carnival of the Mobilists. It might be my birthday this week, but you get all the presents in terms of some fantastic posts from the world of mobile. This week, the carnival comes to you from London as the attention of the mobile world is focussed on Earls Court and [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 20, 2008
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Tagged 3g americas, 3g broadband router, advertising, Ajit Jaokar, bango whitepaper, carnival, carnival of the mobilists, Chetan Sharma, eu, european union, g1, google andriod, handheld learning, iphone, london, london calling, marketing, mobile advertising, mobile blogs, mobile marketing for newbies, mobile marketing whitepaper, mobile video, mobilists, msearchgroove, mtrends, nfc, Nokia 5800, peggy salz, Rude de Wade, smartphone show, symbian, thought leadership
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Well, this has absolutely nothing to do with this blog, also called London Calling but I thought I’d upload the press release anyway. Press Release: Mayor seeks ‘wow’ factor for London 2012′s legacy Mayor of London Boris Johnson has today called on businesses and organisations from around the world to submit truly ground-breaking ideas to [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 21, 2008
in London Olympics
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Tagged 2012 london, 2012 london calling, 2012londoncalling.co.uk, boris johnson, london calling, london calling olympics, london olympic games, London Olympics, londoncalling, mayor of london
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The crew over at SPINNING AROUND: SEVENTY SEVEN THINKING OUT LOUD have once again sliced and diced the Ad Age Power 150 at of 1st August to see who’s who in the UK blogging world. I’m delighted to day that London Calling is shooting up the charts (up 4 on the UK chart to #42 and up 135 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 3, 2008
in blogs
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Tagged ad age, ad age power 150, blog chart, blog ranking, blogging, blogs, london calling, ranking, top uk blogs, top uk marketing blogs, uk blogs
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Thanks to everyone for reading London Calling. I am still very humbled that so many people from around the world take the time to check out my blog periodically, and also thrilled that our RSS feed subscribers keep trending up and up. Below is a screen shot of subscriber numbers since mid January 2008. At [...]
UPDATE: 2 March 2009 – Visto Acquires Good Message to Visto folks – I know your product set well but the Good mobile messaging product is sensational. Please promise to keep innovating the Good suite – it is the closest thing to mobile mail nirvana I have ever seen. When I could not get Good [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted July 16, 2008
in Nokia
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Tagged 5.1.0.37, andrew grill, best email client, best mobile email client, best mobile email solution, best push email solution, blackberry killer, corporate email, E71 fix, evangelist, fasthosts goodlink issue, fasthosts issues, fix for goodlink E71, flagship store, gmm fix, good mobile messaging, goodlink, goodlink 5 symbian, goodlink 5.1, goodlink bug, goodlink e71, goodlink e71 keyboard, goodlink fix, goodlink issues, goodlink keyboard issue, goodlink nokia E71, goodlink nokia issues, goodlink on the nokia e71, goodlink works on E71, hosted exchange, london calling, mail for exhange alternative, mobile email, mobile email nirvana, motorola good, motorola goodlink, Nokia, nokia e71, Nokia E71 and Goodlink, nokia e71 goodlink bug, nokia E71 keyboard issue, nokia e71 problems, nokia flagship store, nokia issue with goodlink, nokia push email, nokia push mail, nokia store london, push email, Visto, Visto acquires Good
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Welcome to London Calling, the new name of my blog with thoughts on mobile advertising, mobile location, local search and social networking. Why the name? As an Australian now based in London, I was used to many TV programs that used the line “london calling” when referring to long distance international calls to Australia. When [...]
